Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 56
However, you may be pleased to accept something at his hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, accept · To what, where: something, hand
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | cop |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | xcomp |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 accept | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accept | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | you | however, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | father's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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